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THE CHURCH 

VERSUS 

The Liquor System, 

A SEEMON 

Delivered at Old Orchard, Maine, August nth, 1878. 



Rev. D. C. BABCOCK 



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NEW YORK: 

National Temperance Society and Publication House, 

58 Reade Street. 
1878. 



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COPTKIGHT. 

J. N. STEARNS, Publishing Agent. 
1878. 



EDWARD O. JENKINS, 

PRINTER AX J) STERE0TYP£:R, 

"20 NORTH WILLIAM ST., N. Y. 



PREFATORY. 



At a large meetino- held at Old Orchard 

D. C. 



THE CHUKOIi VS. THE LIQUOR SYSTEM. 
The National Temperance Society has just 
published a sermon with the ab(jve title by ihe 
Rev. D. C. Babcock, of Philadelpliia. It is a very 
able psesentation of the relations ot tlie Christian 
("hiu'ch to the liquor system, which inclndes 
drinking usages and the maliinsj and vending of 
intoxicating liquors. It is a sermon which should 
have the widesr po>:sib]e circalation among pas- 
ters, officers, and members of churches. To the 
extent that it is carefally and attentively read 
it cannot fail to awaken and deepen intelhgent 
and consci'mtious int-n^est in the temperance 
c'ause. 12mo". 24 pages. Price ten cents each; 
per d' zen, ^i.OO. Address J. N. Steakns, Pub- 
lishing Agent, 5S Reade Street New York. 



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The resolution was forwarded to the Na- 
tional Temperance Society by the following 
Committee, with the request for its publication, 
viz. : Rev. O. M. Cousens, Ex-Gov. Sidney 
Perham, and Professor G. E. Foster. 



4 P^^efatory, 

In accordance with this request the sermon 
is now published, with the hope that it may 
stimulate churches and members to engage 
more fully than ever before in the important 
work of discouraging the drinking usages of 
society and the traffic in intoxicating beverages. 



THE CHURCH 

VERSUS 

The Liquor System 

By Rev. D. C. BABCOCK. 



" open thy mouth, judge righteously^ and plead the cause of 
the poor a7id needy.'' — Pro v. xxxi. 9. 

King Lemuel was evidently blessed with a 
wise and good mother. In the second stanza of 
*' The Prophecy that his Mother taught him," 
he is called to a proper consideration of what 
he is. In the third and fourth stanzas she warns 
him against two great vices, and in the eighth 
and ninth prescribes duties that arise out of his 
relations to his- people. He is to open his 
mouth for them ; he is to judge righteously ; he 
is to plead the cause of the poor and needy. 

The relations of the Christian Church to the 
"• people " are more sacred than those of a king 
to his subjects, and the duties that grow out of 
these relations are clearly presented in this 
counsel of Lemuel's mother. The Christian 
Church, as an organized body, must open her 



6 The CJinrch vs. The Liqiwr Syste?u. 

mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause 
of the poor and needy. 

We utter a well-known and undisputed truth 
when we say : The Christian Church meets 
no obstacle to the accomplishment of her God- 
given mission that will at all compare with the 
Liquor System. It does more directly fo de- 
stroy souls than all other forms of evil. It does 
more to vraste and pervert the substance of the 
people, and so to prevent the evangelization of 
the world, than all other causes combined. All 
of our great benevolent enterprises are lagging 
because of hard times, and the Liquor System 
is the chief cause of hard times. Remove that 
and in twelve months those little words " to let " 
that now^ stare at us from the front walls of 
thousands of shops and dwellings would be 
transferred to prisons and poor-houses. It is a 
fact of no small significance that while shops 
and dwellings beg for occupants, prisons and 
poor-houses are more than full. 

In some "statistics of crime" recently col- 
lected by ]\Ir. F. B. Sanborn, to be presented to 
the International Prison Congress at Stockholm, 
it is shown that the convicts in our *' higher pris- 
ons " are now nearly twice as numerous as they 
were in 1 871-2. '' Six years ago the aggregate 
in our State prisons was 16,000; now 31,000." 
In one or two States, he savs, '' the increase was 



The C liter ch vs. The Liqttor Syste7n, 7 

more than one hundred per cent." These pris- 
oners cost about $43 a year above their earn- 
ings. If we add jails, " the total cost of the 60,- 
000 persons in prison in 1877 was over $5,000,- 
000, or more than $80 per head ;" and the Liq- 
uor System makes more than two-thirds of them. 
Wasteful and destructive as this Liquor Sys- 
tem is, it is less affected by hard times than 
anything else. Let us prove this. The United 
States Government collects an annual revenue 
tax of $25 per capita from all the retail liquor 
dealers it can find. Outside of the Territories 
and the District of Columbia it does not say 
that any one may or may not sell; but if any 
one does sell, they tax him $25 a year on his 
sales. A retail liquor dealer is one *' who sells or 
offers for sale foreign or domestic distilled spirits 
or wines in less quantities than five gallons at the 
same time." Now, for the fiscal year that 
closed with June, 1871, the National Govern- 
ment collected the sum of $3,651,484 from that 
class of dealers, and in 1877 they collected 
$3,840,469, or $188,985 more in 1877 than in 
1871. Our population has increased some, 
while the aggregate sales of these dealers is 
somewhat below what it was six or eight years 
ago ; but that the business is less affected by 
hard times than other trades, will be clear to all 
reflecting minds. 



8 The Church vs. The Liquor System. 

Let us educe some facts from these fiorures. 
The tax on each retail liquor dealer being $25, 
a division of what they all paid, in any given 
year, by that sum will give us the number of 
that class of dealers known to the Government 
in that year. Such division shows that there 
w^ere 146,059 of them in 1871, and 153,618 in 
1877, or 7,559 more in 1877 than there were in 
1871. Estimate our population at 43,000,000, 
and divide it by the 153,618 retail liquor dealers 
of 1877, and you will see that we had one to 
280 of our population. If you want a signiii- 
cant comparison, divide the population, as given 
above, by our 472,450 churches of 1872 and 
see that while we have one retail liquor dealer 
to every 280, we only have a church to every 
593 of our population. 

Dr. William Hargreaves, in " Our Wasted 
Resources," page 114, estimates *'four cus- 
tomers who are drunkards " to each of the retail 
liquor dealers in the country. We think his es- 
timate is not too high. Mark that ! Four to 
each shop on an average who are '* drunk- 
ards ! " In the light of the divine assertion, 
'' nor drunkards .... shall inherit the king- 
dom of God," let us multiply the 153,618 retail 
liquor dealers of 1877 t)y four and see how the 
Liquor System concerns the Christian Church. 
Let us think about the 614,472 souls under 



The Church vs. The Liquor System. g 

that awful curse ! Let us also remind ourselves 
that these persons go to untimely and dishon- 
ored graves and to the dark abodes of the lost 
at the rate of more than 8,000 per month in 
this Christian land ; and that this Liquor Sys- 
tem is turning out just such persons from its 
army of ''moderate drinkers" at the rate of 
twelve times 8,000 every year ! Do these 
things concern the Christian Church ? When 
asked to make special assaults against a system 
that is so destructive as this Liquor System, are 
we justified in saying, *' We can not leave our 
legitimate work to consider outside ques- 
tions ? " 

But let us look at more ** facts in figures." 
Dr. Edward Young, the Chief of our National 
Bureau of Statistics, has on several occasions 
made important deductions from receipts of in- 
ternal revenue. He has shown that the annual 
cost of intoxicating beverages to consumers in 
our nation has not till last year fallen below 
$600,000,000 any year since the establishment 
of the Bureau in 1863. His estimate for last 
year (recently given) was $595,000,000; a very 
small reduction, for which ''hard times" will 
account in a measure.* 



* On page 43 of " Our Wasted Resources " you will find the 
estimate for 1870 given as $619,425,110. Page 47 gives the 
amount for 1871 at $680,036,042; and on page 48 the sum for 
1872 is given as $735,720,048. 



lo The Chtcrch vs. The Liquor System, 

Now, if we divide the $600,000,000 spent an- 
nually for these beverages by the 153,618 retail 
liquor dealers of 1877, we shall see that they 
have taken an average of nearly $4,000 for 
goods that we had better pay for and not use, 
than to drink if we could have them without 
cost. But let us notice that this truth involves 
another, viz., it would be better and cheaper, 
purely as a matter of business, for us to tax our- 
selves as a nation $600,000,000 a year and give 
our retail liquor dealers $4,000 each, than to 
permit them to acquire it by a traffic that in- 
volves such waste of material and production 
of evil as theirs. Honest industry is taxed far 
beyond that sum to take care of the results of 
this traffic ; and its effect on the cost of living 
and in depressing legitimate trade is very great. 

We have but a vague conception of what this 
vast sum would do. Let us suppose 600,000 
of our drunkards to be heads of families, and 
that we give each of them $200 from this drink- 
money — now worse than wasted — for house 
rent. That would take but $120,000,000. 
Then give each of them $500 more to live on, 
or $300,000,000. You still have $180,000,000 
unexpended with which to pay even heavier 
taxes than are now paid by all branches of the 
liquor trade. 

The total valuation of all the church property 



The Church vs. The Liquor Syste^n. ii 

in the United States in 1872 was $354,483,581, 
or about seven-twelfths of $600,000,000. We 
swallow that down in poisonous fluids every 
seven months, and then puzzle our muddled 
brains over the causes of hard times. May I sug- 
gest to you, intelligent pieople, that any scheme 
of labor reform or financial relief that ignores 
the Liquor System is too worthless to engage 
the attention of sensible people. The labor 
problem is not difficult to solve. Poverty in a 
land of such resources as ours is a disgrace to us, 
because it is mainly the result of drinking. 

Let me give one more comparison. New 
Jersey in 1870 had a population of 906,096. 
Maine had 626,000. Divide the revenue tax 
paid by each State — viz., $21,098 in Maine and 
$141,237 in New Jersey — and you will see that 
there were in New Jersey 5,649 retail liquor 
dealers known to the Government and only 843 
in Maine. The traffic is illegal in Maine. In 
New Jersey it is protected by law ; hence the 
difference. But 1 have said enough to convince 
any one that the Liquor System is an enormous 
evil, and that it is against the Church of our 
Lord Jesus Christ. I do not present these 
facts and their lessons to discourage any one, 
but in the hope that they will arouse us to in- 
quiry and effort. 

And now let us give ourselves to the inquiry 



12 The Church vs. The Liquor System, 

— What ought we to do? By ''we'' I mean 
the Christian Church. The question is prac- 
tical ; let the answer be practical The Liquor 
System, as a whole and in all its parts, is 
against the Church. The Church must be 
against the Liquor System as a whole and in 
all its parts. We must destroy that system — 
it belongs to the " works of the Devil." 

Let us try to see what is involved in this 
Liquor System. In general terms, but two 
things : the drinking customs of society and 
the traffic that supports and perpetuates those 
customs. The drinking customs rest, to a 
large extent, on false views of the drink. The 
traffic rests solely on the fact that it is profita- 
ble. The false views about the drink must be 
corrected. The profits of the trade must be 
destroyed. 

The general movement against this Liquor 
System rests on two plain principles, one apply- 
ing to the use and the other to the sale of in- 
toxicating beverages. Those principles are 
known as abstinence and prohibition. They 
both rest on the now well-established fact that 
all alcoholic liquors are poisons ; and because 
they are poisons, it is morally wrong to use 
them as beverages, or to furnish them for such 
use. The Earl of Shaftesbury said, years ago, 
" What is morally wrong can not be politically 



The Church vs. The Liquor System. 13 

right," so any support of this immoral trade by 
political action or non-action is a grave offense 
against God and humanity. 

For lack of clear and comprehensive views of 
the Liquor System and of the movement against 
it, some people say very absurd things. 

One says, '' I don't believe in law. Get peo- 
ple to stop drinking, and the sale will stop ; you 
can't legislate men into habits of sobriety ; " and 
so he cries out against all attempts to suppress 
the traffic as an abuse of '' good men/' and does 
not see far enough to know that he talks fool- 
ishly, and that only fools and rum-sellers applaud 
his utterances. Another, equally narrow, says, 
''What is the use of talking total abstinence? 
As- long as the stuff is made it will be drank. 
The way to stop drinking is to go to head- 
quarters and stop the manufacture." Both of 
these men have some truth, but the first fails 
to see that the grog-sellers are manufacturing 
drunkards faster than we can ''reform" them, 
and does not say enough about form-ation to 
lead one to suppose he ever thought of it as 
legitimate " Christian temperance work ; " while 
the other is too obtuse to understand that the 
only way to '' headquarters" is through such 
an enlightened public sentiment and awakened 
conscience on the whole question, as will 
place men with right views and right principles 



14 The Church vs. The Liquor System. 

at ** headquarters." I repeat it, we must be 
against the entire Liquor System ! We must 
destroy it, root and branch ! 

But this system involves more than is seen in 
any general statement. It involves the manu- 
facture, the importation, the sale, and the use of 
all classes of intoxicating liquors as beverages. 
It involves the bad governmental practice of 
raising revenue from causes of vice and immor- 
ality. It involves the licensing of what is mor- 
ally wrong, and the signing of applications for 
such license. It involves the letting of build- 
ings for liquor stores, and the raising of hops 
and grain for the liquor trade. • A beer-seller 
sharply retorted to a hop-raiser who was berat- 
ing her for her business : *' You sell it by the 
pound and I sell it by the quart. What is the 
difference ? " 

Let us ask, also, if this system does not in- 
volve the use of "the wine when it is red, when 
it giveth its color in the cup, when it moveth it- 
self aright," as an element in the Lord's Supper? 
Can it be that our Lord consecrated that which 
He inspired Solomon to denounce as '' a mocker 
and raging ; " as that which '' biteth like a ser- 
pent and stingeth like an adder ; " can it be, I 
ask, that our Lord consecrated that to be used 
as an emblem of His shed blood ? When we 
reflect on what is involved in such a view, v/e 



The C lucre h vs. The Liqtwr System. 15 

shall reject it, and use not the fruit of putrefac- 
tion, but *'the fruit of the vine." 

We have said enough to convince any one 
that the Liquor System is very comprehensive. 
There are few interests, temporal or eternal, 
that escape its blighting influences. It not only 
creeps into our pews, but into our altars. It 
even comes up into our pulpits and drags down 
those consecrated to the most sacred duties. It 
goes into General Conferences and General As- 
semblies, and sometimes suppresses utterance 
and action on this great practical question. 

We have a great trust committed to us. If 
we serve our ''own generation, by the will of 
God," we must assault this Liquor System. It is 
the dominant evil of our time. The temperance 
question, instead of being worn out, is just 
opening to us. We are just getting up where 
we can see what it involves ; to such an under- 
standing of its principles and of their correct- 
ness and importance as leads to serious thought 
and earnest inquiry as to how they may be got 
into general practice. 

What are the ways and means ? We have 
now come to this question, and I thank God 
that we have. How can total abstinence and 
prohibition be made effective? This is not a 
question of principles, but of methods. Let me 
say first, that we shall not secure this end, the 



1 6 The Church ws. The Ldfmor Syisiemu 

destmctioa of the Liquor Sjfstem, by a temper- 
aiMDe spasm now and then, ~ : r : -^^ 

against mm-seDers and I^tsIs.: : r 5 7 t r : .."= 
is the great rom-seHer, and wr \:.- '^-: ^ r ;. t 
the State. 

We shall not overthrow this system by sing- 
ing and praying alone. We do not need less 
of either, bot we do need to mix in with our 
songs and prayers more of right teaching and 
earnest work for the prevention of the evils of 
this system. 

The temperance qoestion is a general : r?- 
tion. It concerns the whole nation a: 
classes. We ought to recognize this fee: 
to see what it invc^es. Our fJans and t~- :- 
ought to accord with it. The whole con : : s 
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They can reach but few, and that at great ex- 
pense and disadvantage. They lack skilled 
and disciplined leaders, and hence can not do 
as effective work as they themselves desire. A 
few, and they are mainly church-members, now 
provide the meagre support the movement has, 
and even that little can not be expended as 
wisely as it ought to be. But the Church has 
the pulpit, the Sunday-school, the prayer-meet- 
ing, and, to a large extent, the press. Every 
part of this work is in her line. It involves no 
departure whatever from legitimate church work. 
It costs no more to preach a temperance sermon, 
or hold a temperance prayer-meeting, or teach 
a temperance lesson, or hold a temperance con- 
cert in the Sunday-school, than to present other 
topics. We complain of poor work outside of 
the Church, but do we give that best of all criti- 
cism, *' a more excellent way ? " 

The Church ought to lead on this question. 
She should get right herself on the whole ques- 
tion, and then teach others ; and she can teach 
what she does know while investigation goes 
on. No small part of our work is that sort of 
teaching that has first to correct errors and re- 
move prejudices. It is more delicate than diffi- 
cult. There is no practical question before us 
about which people assume to know so much. 
Everybody has this question settled and can tell 



1 8 The Chui^ch vs. The Liquor System. 

the world just what to do and how to do it ! 
Even cultured teachers, who are modest in 
their utterances on other questions, abound in 
opinions on this question that do not rest on 
previous careful examination, and rush into 
print with crude and careless utterances that 
Avould evoke severe censure if given on other 
subjects. Public sentiment is yet to be formed 
on this question. We had men in the past 
generation who understood it, but the present 
generation has not been educated in this direc- 
tion. 

By what methods shall we secure this correct 
public sentiment ? I answer, by just such 
methods as are effective on other questions 
It will take time ; not less than a generation. 
As churches, we have no methods of temper- 
ance work. Some local churches have methods 
of w^ork, and many church members are active 
workers for the cause ; but not one of the great 
evangelical denominations has any plan for pro- 
moting temperance. 

We need some plan of operations. How 
shall we get it ? How do we carry on mission, 
tract, Bible, and church-extension work? Are 
those wise methods ? Then, why not promote 
temperance in the same way ? W^hy not place 
the National Temperance Societ}^ and Publica- 
tion House in the same relation to the Church 



The Church vs. The Liquor System. 19 

as we do the American Bible Society ? It is 
not a denominational movement, and all would 
sustain it. We shall, I fear, have no well- 
trained generation until we adopt some such 
plan. 

We can not afford, as churches, to Ignore 
this cause, and surely the plan that Involves 
systematic action will generate the greatest 
amount of force and give it the wisest and most 
effective expenditure. There are men — some 
of them ministers — who cry out against these 
benevolent causes, but they are out of their 
place. The Church of God is not an employ- 
ment bureau ; it is God's agency for the salva- 
tion of this world. To refuse to work any 
cause He thrusts upon us is to refuse to do our 
duty. God lays this work at our door. Broad- 
minded and large-hearted men and women, who 
want to do all the good they can while passing 
through this world, will gladly give it a place 
in their hearts and in their plans of benev- 
olence. 

Respect for economy dictates this course. 
Christian men now support this cause so far as 
it has support, but even the little they give had 
better come from the many and be wisely ex- 
pended than to be expended on men who are 
in temperance work mainly to get a living. 



20 The Church vs. The Liquor System, 

If our 72,450 churches had but one temper- 
ance sermon a year, and would devote an aver- 
age of three dollars to this cause, that would 
give a fund of more than $217,000, or nearly 
four times as much as the National Temper- 
ance Society now receives from sales and dona- 
tions combined ; and we would have more real 
education than results from our present course. 

With a word of exhortation, I will close. 
First, to pastors : If these views impress you 
as sound, help to give them a voice. Go forth 
to put them in practice. You can anticipate any 
plan that the Church in her general councils 
may devise. You can present the claims of 
this cause and enlist your people in its behalf 
You can secure and use some of the excellent 
literature that the National Temperance So- 
ciety has on its shelves, and thus aid in edu- 
cating the people. But I want to appeal to the 
membership of the Church, and especially to 
young people. 

You are living in a grand and noble time. 
There never was a better opportunity to strike 
effective blows for God and humanity than the 
present. Will you not consecrate yourselves to 
this glorious work ? Present yourselves living 
sacrifices ! God calls for living sacrifices ! 
What He asks **is your reasonable service," 



The Church vs. The Liquor System. 21 

and in the performance of it you will find great 
reward. 

" Oh, come ! oh, come ! and bravely stand the field, 
While you have stren^h the Temp'rance sword to wield : 
Ere long the foe shall be compelled to fly, 
And shouts of victory will ascend on high." 



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liave published Eighty-seven Books specially adapted to Sun- 
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approved by a Publication Committee of Twelve, representing 
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Bit 75 

Hard Master, The 85 

Harker Family, The. . 1 25 

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Gospel Temperance. 12mo, 114 pp. By Rev. J. M. Van Buren. Paper, 25c. ; cloth 60 

This work is intended to supply the felt necessity for an authoritative law on the sub- 
ject of Temperance. It gives a clear explanation of that law, with its applications, and 
the duties it imposes. 

The Church and Temperance. By John W. Mears, D.D 15 

The Moral Duty of Total Abstinence. By Rev. T. L. Cuyler, D.D 15 

The Wine and the Word. By Rev. Herrick Johnson, D.D 15 

The Wines of the Bible. By Rev. C. H. Fowler, D.D 10 

JF'oitr-Tage Tracts, ^4-00 per Thousand. 



Timothy a Teetotaler. 

Domestic Wine. 

The Wine-Oup and the Gallows. 

Questions with Bible Answers. 

Where did Timothy get his Wine ? 

Shall We Drink Wine ? 

Shall We use Wine and Beer ? 

A Word to Scriptural Wine Drinkers 

Wine and Expediency. 

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Wine Drinking —the Beginning and 
the Ending. 

Timothy Titcomb's Testimony against 
Wine. 

Wine -Drinking in Prance. 
The Sabbath and Temperance, 
The Church and Temperance. 
The Miracle at Oana. 



Bible Wines. 

Does the Bible Payor Moderate Drink- 
ing? 



Does the Bible Sanction the use of 

Wine at the Lord's Supper? 
Bible Opposed to Wine Drinking. 



NATIVE WINES. Twelve Tages, ^72,00 per Thousand, 

Temperance Bible Commentary. By Dr. P. R. Lees and Rev. Dawson Burns. 

Octavo, 480 pages 2 . 30 

Giving at one view, version, criticism, and exposition, in regard to all passages of Holy 
Writ, bearing on wine and strong drink, or illustrating the principles of the Temperance 
Eeformation. Any of the above sent by mail, on receipt of price. 

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'CIENCE AND POLITICAL EcONOMY 



The following valuable books, by some of the foremost writers in th« 
world, have been published bj the National Temperance Society, and 
which should have a wide circulation : 

Our Wasted Resources, or the Missing Link in the Temper- 
ance Eeform. 12mo, 201 pag-es, paper cover, 50 cents ; cloth, $1.25. 
By Dr. Wm. Hargreaves, M.D. 

This book presents in a new and striking light the economic aspect of the temper- 
ance question. It includes a series of fourteen elaborate and carefully prepared tables, 
the result of many months of painstaking labor, which give from official sources an ex- 
hibit of our immense agricultural, manulacturing, and mining resources ; the yield of 
our fisheries ; the extent, value, and receipts of our railways ; the growth of our ex- 
ports and imports during the last fifty years ; the number of persons employed and the 
wages paid in connection with our varied industries, etc. The book also presents, in 
a more complete form than tcey have ever before been given to the public, well- 
authenticated statistics of the liquor traffic, showing the quantity and cost of intoxi- 
catinsr drinks; the number of persons employed m the manufacture and sale of 
liquors ; the expenditures for crime and pauperism caused by the drink-traffic, and 
the material benefit which would accrue, especially to the laboring classes, to the 
cause of education and religion, and the ease with which our national debt could be 
paid, if the great drink-waste were stopped. 

Alcohol and The State. A Discussion of the Problem of Law as 
Applied to the Liquor Traffic. 12mo. 406 pages, $1.50. By Robert 
C. PiTMAJvr, LL.D., Associate Justice of the Superior Court of Massa- 
chusetts. 

This is one of the most valuable and important contributions to the literature of tho 
economic and legislative aspects of the alcoholic discussion, as a question of states- 
manship, ever given to the public of our own country or of Europe. Jt treats, with 
great conciseness and marked ability, of what the State loses in various ways through 
alcohol, and. in turn, of what Is the duty and proper function of the State concerning 
alcohol. It is of a high order of literary merit, and is a book for statesmen, legislators, 
and all intelligent, thoughtful temperance men and women evei-ywneie. 

On Alcohol, 12mo, 190 pages. Paper covers, 50 cents ; cloth, $1.00. 

By Benjamin W. Richardson, M.A., M.D.. F.R.S., of London, with 

an introduction by Dr. Willard Parker, of J^ew York. 

This book contains the " Cantor Lectures " recently delivered before the Society of 

Arts. These justly celebrated lectures, six in number, embrace a historical sketch of 

alcoholic di.stillation. and the results of an exhaustive scientific inquiry concernii^^ 

the nature of alcohol and its effects upon the human body and mind. They have at 

tracted much attention throughout Gieat Britain, both among physicians and general 

readers, and are the latest and best scientific expositionb of alcohol and its effects extant^ 

Bacchus Dethroned. 12mo, 248 pages. By Frederick Powell 
$1.00. 

This is a prize essay, and is one of the ablest and most convincing works ever issued. 
The question is presented in all its phases, physiological, social, political, moral, and 
religious. 

The Prohihitionist's Text-Book. 12mo, 312 pages. Containing 
the most valuable Arguments, Statistics, Testimonies, and Appeals from 
twenty able writers, showing the Iniquity of the License System and the 
Right and Duty of Prohibition. 

Alcbliol as a' Food and Medicine. 12mo, 137 pages. By Ezra 
M. Hunt, M.D. Paper, 25 cents ; cloth, 60 cents. 
This work discusses the subject of alcohoJ as a food and also as a medicine, and 

demonstrates that it has no value used as the former, and may be substituted in the 

latter. Every one should read it. 

The Medical Use of Alcohol. 12mo, 96 pa^es. Paper, 25 cents-, 
cloth, 60 cents. By James Edmunds, MD., of London. Three Lectures 
upon the Medical and Dietetic use of Alcohol, together with the use oi 
Stimulants for Women and Xursing Mothers. 

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THE CHURCH 



VERSUS 



The Liquor System 



:\ SKl^\[ON 



Delivered at Old Orchard, Maine, August nth, 1878. 



BY 

Rev. D. C. BABCOCK 



NEW YORK : 

National Temperance Society and Publication Eoiise, 

58 Reade Street, 
1878. 



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MMim^ AND REOlTiTMS, 



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i2mo. 96 pages. Paper Covers, 25 cents. Cloth, 60 cents. 

Compiled by MiSS L. Pexney, Editor of *' Xaf zonal Tetuperance Orator" 
' Readings and Recitations, Xo. i ." 

The great success which has attended the publication of Readings and Recita- 
tions, Xo. I. and the numerous calls for another of a similar kind, have resulted 
in the careful preparation of No. 2, which is now published. It contains a choice 
selection of first-class articles, both in prose and verse, many of which have been 
written expressly for this work, embracing argument and appeal, pathos and 
humor, by the foremost Temperance Advocates. Suitable for Declamation, 
Recitation, and Public and Parlor Readings. 

Adapted for the use of Schools, all Temperance Organizations, Lodges, 
DiWsions, Reform Clubs, Bands of Hope, etc. 

Ttie following is the Table of Contents ; 



Beveare of Li:tle Things. 

Ble?5 God for Rain. 

Blue Ribbon (The). 

Blush for the Nation ■ A . 

Charge of the Blue Brigade. 

Cold Water. 

Each Man should do his Duty. 

God's Bevera-ze. 

Good of the Order (The). 

"Just as I am." 



Lips that touch Liquor 

must Never touch >line (The). 
Mulligan's Go.>pel. 
"Mv People shall be Free ! " 
Norah and the Magistrate. 
Parson Posed iThe). 



Tie on the Red Ribbon. 
Truth is Sure to Win. 
Unfettered and Free. 
Vagabonds (The). 
Vote as rou Prav. 
What Whisky did for Me. 



King Alcohol's Apostrophe after Stick Together 



Phantom Beli Punch (The) ; or. What shall we do with the Ap- 

The Landlord's Dream. 
Questions to Alcohol Answered. 
Somebody's Mother. 



a Defeat. 

Landlord of the Blue Hen. 
License System <,The). 



btnses. 

Temperance Harvest (The>. 

Temperance Work. 

!=» I^ O S E . 

Josh Billings on Lager-beer. 

On which Side ? 

One way to Make Money. 

Original Liquor League (The). 

Our Reform has its Tides. 

Picture of Life (A). 

Polly's Temperance Speech. 

Public Opinion. [Staff! 

Run up the Flag — Nail it to the 



pies; 
You Never can Tell. 
•'You Conquer Me! Me C:n- 

quer You ! '" 
Your Vote. 



Saloon-Keeper's Lament (The) 
Serpent and the Tiger (The;. 
Sir Walter Raleigh's Advice. 
Thrilling Appeal (A). 
Tramp's Maxims (A). 
What'is Moderation ? 
Word to Our Girls fA). 
Women and Temperance Work. 



Address for the Fourth of July. 
Boys and the Bottle. 
Crime of Crimes (The). 
Dangerous Companions. 
Effects of Lager-beer (_Thei. 
For what are we Battling? 
Har%-estofHeIl iThe). 
How to Break the Chain. 
Is there no Hope ? 

The following are also first-class works for Declamations, Readings, Recita- 
tions, etc. 

Tl»e National Teinperance Orator, izmo. 233 pages. Edited by Miss L. Pen-ney. $1. 

The b::k cor.taias Jrifr.-three excellent Prose Articles, Ninety choice Poems, and a series of 

Thirty in'eresring Dialogues. 

The TeniperaQCe Speaker. By J. N. Stearns. To cents. This book contains 288 pages 
of Dec'.ania:i:n3 and Dialogues, suitable for Sunday and Day-schools, Bands of Hope, and Temper- 
ance Organizations. 

Headings aud. Recitations, No. 1. i2mo, 96 pp. By Miss L. Pekxey. A choice collec- 
tion of Prose and Verse, suitable for Declamations, Public or Parlor Readings, etc. Cloth, 60 
cents; paper. 25 «ents. 

Either of the above books will be sent by mail, post-paid, on receipt of price. 
Addreea. .1 N fiTFARN^. Pfihlkhinn \n(^r\\ ."^R Rp^Hp <;frppt. N. Y. 



Talks on Temperance. 

BY 

Rev. Canon Farrar, D.I)., F.R.S. 
12ino, 158 pages; cloth, 60 cents; paper cover, 25 cents. 



The National Temperance Society has recentlj^ published 
the Ten Sermons and Talks by this eminent divine. They are 
filled \N'ith sound convincing arguments against the lawfulness, 
moralit}', and necessity of the Liquor Traffic, as well as stirring 
appeals to all Christian men and women, to take a firm, decided, 
outspoken stand in favor of Total Abstinence from all intoxica- 
ting liquors. 

He gives the trumpet no uncertain sound, when he proclaims 
war against Alchohol, but urges every motive, and brings to bear 
every incentive, to enlist recruits from every class. 

OVER 40,000 COPIES 

have alreadj^ been sold in England, and we trust that, with the 
very low price at which the}' are sold, they will secure a wide cir- 
culation in every community. The following is the Table of 

1. Between the Liiving and the Dead. 

2. Reasons for Being an Abstainer. 

3. Total Abstinence for the Sake of Ourselves a&d others. 

4. The Vow of the Nazarite. 

5. The Vow of the Rechabites. 

6. The Serpent and the Tiger. 
7* Our Duty as a Nation. 

8. Abstinence from Evil. 

9. Address to Teachers. 

10. Experience of a Total Abstainer. 

It will be sent by mail on receipt of price. 

Address J. N. STEARNS, Publishing Agent, 

58 Meade Street, New York, 



FOR SUNDAY-SCHOOL LIBRARIES. 



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The National Temperance Society and Publication House have 
published Eighty-four Books specially adapted to Sunday-school Li- 
braries, which have been carefully examined and approved by a Pub- 
lication Committee of Twelve, representing the various Religious de- 
nominations, and they have been highly recommended by numerous 
Ecclesiastical bodies and Temperance Organizations all over the land. 
They should be in every Sunday-school Library. The following is a 
List of some of the latest and the best issued : 

The Brewer's Fortune. By Mart Dwinell Chellis. 425 pages. $1 50 
Ripley Parsonage. By Faye Huntington. 12mo,a51 pages.... 125 
Mr. McKenzie's Answer. By Faye Huntington. 352 pages. 1 25 
The Mill and The Tavern. By t. s. Arthur. i2mo, 303 pages. 1 25 

A strange Sea Story. By Mrs. J. McNair Wright. 427 pages. 1 50 

The Curse of Mill Valley. By Mrs. S. M. Hartouqh. 381 pages. 1 25 

Saved. By Miss M. E. Winslow. 12mo, 318 pages 1 25 

The Image Unveiled. By Miss L. Bates. 12mo, 242 pages 1 00 

Joe's Partner. By Mrs. S. S. Baker. 18mo, 128 pages 50 

Our Coffee-Room. By Elizabeth Cotton. 12mo, 278 pages 1 00 

Ten Cents. By Mary Dwinell Chellis. 12mo, 334 pages 1 25 

The Wife's Engagement Ring. By t. s. Arthur. 278 pages.. 125 

Wealth and Wine. By Mahy Dwinell Chellis. 12mo, 320 pp. 1 25 

A More Excellent Way. By Miss m. e. Winslow. 217 pages, i OO 
Life-Cruise of Captain Bess Adams. By Mrs. J. McNair 

Wright. 12mo, 413 pages 150 

Alice Grant. By Mrs. E, J. Richmond. 12mo, 352 pages 1 25 

The Queer Home in Rugby Court. By Miss Annette l. Noblb. 

12mo, 450 pages 1 50 

Barford Mills. By Miss M. E. Winslow. 12mo, 246 pages 1 00 

All for Money. By Mary Dwinell Chellis. l2mo, 340 pages. 1 25 

Norman Brill's Life Work. By abby Eldridge. 218 pages. . i oO 

Old Times. By Mary Dwinell Chellis. 12mo, 351 pages j 25 

Address J. N. STEARNS, Publishing Agent, 

58 READE ST;, NEW YORK. 



